Hi Tim,

>After This.DisplayWelcomeMessage() our application comes crashing to a halt with a "File Does Not Exist" error message, BUT ONLY in the runtime and only on initial startup. If I run the finished exe in the full version of VFP, it executes without any problems. Once the registry entries are created, the app starts with runtime libraries no problem.

I'm going to take a guess and say that Classes.dbf and Classes.cdx have been marked as excluded from the project and have not been distributed with the application. As you probably know, the GetClassPath() method utilizes this table to look up the proper class to instanciate. It's worth a check.

HTH
Brian